Secretly Dating your Improv Coach (w/ Edi Patterson)

Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

Headgum & Nicole Byer

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4.8 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Actress Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones) joins Nicole to talk about falling in love with her improv teacher, hiding their relationship from the world, and mistaking his proposal for a joke. She opens up about being a late bloomer in dating, throwing house parties that felt straight out of a '90s film, and the one dating lesson she learned from a kid that she wishes everyone would follow. Plus: ghosting guilt, cringey first date stories, 90 Day: Hunt for Love, and the time Nicole’s dog showed up on a stranger’s Instagram story.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgum podcast.
0:05.3	Want to watch this episode?
0:06.9	Catch the full video on YouTube.
0:08.9	Just hit the link in the episode description.
0:11.1	The new McChrispy Strip is here.
0:13.1	Dip approved by ketchup,
0:14.6	tangy barbecue, honey mustard, honey mustard,
0:16.5	Sprite, McFlurry, Big MacSauce,
0:18.2	double dipped in Buffalo and Ranch,
0:19.9	more ranch,
0:20.5	and creamy chili McChispy strip dip.
0:23.2	Now at McDonald's.
0:24.9	Bada-Bu-Bu-Bu-Bu.
0:29.7	Why won't you date me?
0:35.9	Why won't you date me? Why won't you date me? Why won't you date me? Please tell me why.
0:47.3	Ooh, baby, welcome to another episode of Why Won't You Date Me? A podcast where me, Nicole Byer was trying to figure out why I was so single, even though you could come in my hair and call it a
0:57.6	Barrett. My guest today is an actress that you know as Judy Gemstone on the hit, on the hit show,
1:05.7	The Righteous Gemstones. The Complete series can now be seen on HBO Max. It used to be Max, but it's back to
1:13.5	HBO Max because they said, we better keep changing the name of this company. And you also saw
1:19.3	her in The Nuffles of Miniseries event. That was on Paramount Plus that I loved so much unironically.
1:27.0	It's Edie Patterson. Hi. Idy, thank you so much unironically. It's Edie Patterson.
1:28.5	Hi.
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